O'Brien's NFL buyout with Penn St. reduced

Summary of 4 articles · Updated Dec 22, 2013

The restated contract shows O'Brien changed the formula for his buyout and reduced the price of an NFL buyout from $19.33 million last year to $6.48 million for this year, per the contract, whereas the buyout another school would have to pay Penn State fo… (more)r O'Brien is $11.08 million. It’s old news that Bill O’Brien’s contract at Penn State has a two-tiered buyout. Prior reports indicated that O’Brien’s contract has a $7.73 million buyout for an NFL team, with a price tag of $13 million if he were to leave for another college job. As a result, it makes sense that O’Brien would want to drive the number down. Is Detroit the right fit for O'Brien? He's got plenty of NFL assistant experience, including a stint as New England's offensive coordinator from 2007 to 2011, and he's made no secret of his desire to be a head coach. ESPNs Ed Werder reported earlier, citing an unnamed source, the Ford family might not be willing to eat that much salary and then pay another head coach on top of that.

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